And bright the Admiralty spire (1977)

Quadriga over the arch of the General Staff in Leningrad.

View of the part of the Neva River with the divorced Palace Bridge (from above).

A cargo ship passes under a raised bridge.

View of the Smolny building.

People on the Neva embankment during the white night.

Divorced bridge on the Neva River.

Monument to A. S. Pushkin by Anikushin.

The little ship on the Admiralty steeple.

Delivery of the boat to the Admiralty building after restoration.

Restoration of the boat figure.

A boat on a truck platform.

Photographers are shooting the transport of the boat from the sidewalks.

Laying newspapers in a ball-the base of the boat.

Closing the ball.

Lifting the boat by helicopter.

View of Leningrad from the helicopter cabin.

People watch the helicopter fly.

View of the spire in the woods and the helicopter gaining altitude (below).

Workers strengthen the ship on the spire of the Admiralty.

View of the Admiralty building with partially removed scaffolding from the spire.

Sculptures on the edge of the roof of the Hermitage building, view of St.

Isaac's Cathedral.

People on the streets and squares of Leningrad.

Antique sculpture on the Admiralty building.

View of the upper part of the Admiralty building, the ship on top of the spire.

Sanding of the walls of the spire, a type of polished spire (from bottom to top).

View of the arrow of the Vasilyevsky skeleton (from above).

Women working on the upper deck talk about their feelings during work and the installation of the boat in its former place (synchronously).

Restorers clean the sculptural composition on the roof of the Admiralty building.

A girl walks along the fountain.

Tourists look up at the Admiralty spire.

A fragment of a bas-relief adorning the gable of the Admiralty building.

Old engravings depicting the construction of St.

Petersburg.

Warships of the Baltic Fleet on the Neva River on the day of the celebration of the Soviet Navy.

Military sailors march past the monument to Peter the Great.

Paintings depicting St.

Petersburg of the 19th century.

A cadet of the naval school stands leaning against the parapet on the embankment.

Newlyweds on Decembrist Square.

View of the Decembrist Square with the monument to Peter I.

Tourists take pictures on the square.

The faces of tourists.

The pendulum of the tower clock swings.

A painting depicting the Decembrist uprising on Senate Square on December 14, 1825.

The gears of the watch mechanism rotate.

Midday salvo from the cannon of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

The bells are ringing.

The figure of an angel on top of the Alexander column.

A painting depicting a flood in St.

Petersburg in November 1824 (panorama).

Views of the Neva embankment during the flood in Leningrad in 1977.

The water rises to the top of the bridge spans.

Flooding on the streets of Leningrad, vehicles traveling on the water.

View of a part of the flooded city center.

The statue of the Sphinx on the embankment.

People under umbrellas walk along Nevsky Prospekt.

The tour boat goes along the Neva River.

The faces of young people.

View of the Winter Palace and the Palace Bridge (from above).

Workers install scaffolding for the restoration of the Admiralty spire.

Gilding of a part of the spire by applying gold leaf.

A female restorer talks about the technology of gilding the surface of the spire (synchronously).

View of the spire and the upper part of the Admiralty building during the restoration.

A painting depicting the Admiralty building in the 18th and 19th centuries.

View of the part of Nevsky Prospekt in Leningrad (from above).

People walk along Nevsky Prospekt.

People rest on benches in the squares closest to the Admiralty.

Children look out of the car window, a man examines the engine.

Engravings depicting the streets and squares of St.

Petersburg in the 19th century.

People on Nevsky Prospekt.

View of Anichkov Bridge with sculptures of horses and Anichkov Palace.

An engraving depicting a part of Nevsky Prospekt in the 19th century.

The building of Gostiny Dvor and Kazan Cathedral on Nevsky Prospekt, alternates with old paintings and engravings of St.

Petersburg.

The quadriga above the arch of the General Staff.

An old etching.

Repair of paving stones on the Palace Square in Leningrad in the summer of 1977.

View of the central part of the Palace Square during the restoration of the paving stones.

Panorama of the Palace Square (top).

View of the upper part of the arch of the General Staff, swinging the crane hook.

The pendulum of the tower clock swings, the anchor mechanism works, fragments of a painting depicting the storming of the Winter Palace.

A drawing depicting a revolutionary sailor.

The faces of foreign tourists, tourists are taking photos.

A double-decker tour bus rides through the streets of Leningrad.

The face of an elderly woman.

A memorial plaque on the pedestal of one of the equestrian sculptures on the Anichkov Bridge, next to the mark from an enemy shell.

Elderly people, veterans of the Great Patriotic War on the streets of Leningrad.

Flower trade on Nevsky Prospekt.

Views of St.

Isaac's Square and St.

Isaac's Cathedral.

A woman restorer while working on the Admiralty clock tells about the restoration of the destroyed monuments of Leningrad and the region in 1943-1944, talks about her feelings while working at height (synchronously).

Panorama of the central part of Leningrad (top).

Views of the Admiralty building, circular panorama of the surrounding neighborhoods (top).

Cruiser "Aurora" on the Neva (above).

View of the Palace Square (from above).

View of Victory Square (top).

Views of St.

Isaac's Cathedral and the Admiralty building (top).